Today’s theme: “Intelligence”
Blog post of the week …
The joke Einstein thought was hilarious wasn't
Related …
Where have all the smart people gone?
Intelligence
• Advances in meteorology mean Weather Channel forecasters will soon be able to pinpoint brainstorms. Speculate how it’ll effect the way employers hire.
• Suggest to friends that one day all violent crime will cease when innovative ammunition companies develop “smart” bullets that will decide after exiting the gun whether the target deserves lethal ventilation. Predict that some bullets will actually reverse and strike the gunman.
• Predict in the future we will live in smart structures that will shrewdly detect energy needs, flaws, security, etc. They will be Sherlock Homes.
• In order to lend cerebral precision to your putdowns, it’s helpful to know descending order of IQ stupidity is Moron (50–69), Imbecile (20–49), and Idiot (below 20).
• This may sound naive, but I have to think a brain-eating amoeba would be one of the world's most intelligent organisms.
• I’m intelligent enough to appreciate the contradiction of being a man who fancies himself an intellectual while simultaneously becoming furious at the failure to successfully complete the marshmallow maze on the back of the Lucky Charms cereal box.
• Reports say Dr. Ben Carson a bungler who left sponges in brains. Is that bad? Me, I wish my brain were more sponge-like.
Randoms
• I’m becoming highly suspicious of the word "ascend." How did a word that's pronounced "ASS-END" come to mean "Rise up?" Something cheeky is going on here. I vow to get to the bottom of this …
• The outcome of your days will begin to make more sense when you realize that things like happiness and sadness aren’t emotions. They’re mindsets. Today I’m setting my mind to “Procrastinate.”
• Although I'm a big believer in proper etiquette I can't see myself ever saying, "God bless you!" to a sneezing supermodel. I mean, isn't asking a God to bless a supermodel awfully redundant?
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